As everyone seems to be giving away 'presents' here at PQ (thank you Will for embarrassing me with that e4m5 story :) I figured it was about time you got to see the contest results of the big RDE contest held when the pack was released. Yep, it's true, all demos have been updated! Head over to the Runner's Delight page where 9 fresh megs of demos are waiting for you...

And speaking of contests, don't forget to miss the results of the CSA contest at Mineral's.

And here's another old madcoop. An easy 100% of Episode 1 in 8:35, done by Jesse, Ilkka, myself and Mattias Berggren. This can't count as a proper demo as there were a couple deaths, but it's good fun nonetheless.

I just thought I'd upload this as a sort of Christmas present to everyone. It's an old madcoop by Jesse, FAB, Sokrates and myself- an easy 100% of the whole of Quake in around 70 minutes! Unfortunately, it's only from my perspective, but I really didn't feel like uploading an extra 12 megs much in the same way you'd probably get bored of watching an extra three and a half hours of demos. There's no E2M3 demo, I'm afraid, but you'll just have to live with that.
Anyway, it features lots of grenade-jumps done without the counter with bad pings, not to mention much amusing cursing when things go wrong, and Jesse's dumbness at the end of E4M5 has to be seen to be believed =)

Merry Christmas, tout le monde.

It's been a long time, but there is a Quake2 demo to update! New player, The Shaws has made this demo on Space for us:

• Easy run in 1:07 - Two seconds faster than Paul Carlsson.

That's all for now! Bye.

The Contoton demos' links from my last update have been fixed, grab the map and check out the demos.

Also, don't forget the CSA speedrun contest at Mineral's. If you still haven't seen the contest map by Attila, it's time to check it out now! The deadline for the contest is 19th December.

Yes, it has been quite a while since my last update. The reason is the usual, and I do not have time to update all the demos even now. The ones I'm going to update now have been sent a long time ago, before the new sdaincoming -system. As always, you can download the newest demos from the sdaincoming dir.

Contoton madness

Fabian Kollakowski and Mattias Berggren did an assault against Optic's records for Contoton.

Fabian did the demos on nightmare skill:

• Nightmare run in 0:10 - One second faster than Optic.
  
• Nightmare 100% in 0:23 - One second faster than Optic.
  

Matthias did the demos on easy skill:

• Easy run in 0:10 - One second faster than Optic.
  
• Easy 100% in 0:23 - One second faster than Optic.
  

They also did a coop for the level: Easy 100% in 0:20.

Marathons

Markus has entered the marathon tables with an incredible record:

• Easy run of Episode 1 in 2:48 - Nine seconds faster than my old record. Markus did lure the zombies in e1m3, but does anyone have guts to do the *big* GJ in e1m4? :)
  

Then the demos from the usual marathonrunner, Marlo:

• Easy 100% of Episode 2 in 12:59 - 45 seconds faster than Will.
  
• Easy 100% of Episode 4 in 16:28 - Another improvement over his previous record.
  

That's all the demos for now. Incase you're interested in Quake2 demos and SP-maps, go check out Mr.Shambler's FPS Demos and Discussion. He has E-mailed me saying that he has posted several speedruns featuring new tricks, such as berserker punch jumps, double grenade jumps, double-hand grenade jumps. Sounds interesting, too bad that I've uninstalled Q2 ;)

Just to clear things up, accessing our new ftp-dir really isn't that hard. You can use any regular ftp-client, like ws-ftp, cuteftp etc, and even your browser; click here to enter the sdaincoming directory (if you're using Netscape, you can use the 'upload file' option from the File-menu to upload your files). Now go check out Fabian's e1m1_054...

Hi there. As you know, updates have been getting quite scarce recently, even with the large amount of people doing it. We're just very busy people. So, we're trying out a new method. From now on, you will be able to connect to PlanetQuake and upload and download demos from a special directory. This saves us time in updating (we no longer have to upload the demos, the most tedious part of the update), and means you can get demos before they're updated.

Important: If you're uploading a demo, please tell us which demo it is, either by writing an email to the usual address, or by uploading a copy of the text file as well, outside of the zip. Else, we probably won't update it.

Anyway, to upload/download, connect to www.planetquake.com using an FTP programme, with username and password both set to sdaincoming and go to the sdaincoming directory.

Hopefully this will go well, let's hope there are no problems =)

At last, the long awaited update, and we have a grand total of 1 demo to give you. The star of the show is new player, XxSOULxX, who has sent me it no less than four times (maybe more), but it's definately a happy ending as it finally gets posted.

• City 1 in 0:54 - Easy run, filling up the tables
  

Like the Ram Trilogy gatecrashing an ATB party, the cheesiness ends, and onto...

Quake2 done Too Quick?

Work has started (some time ago in fact) on a skill0 version of Q2dQ2, which we hope will become a proper movie. Expect a release sometime next millenium =)

Once again, a massive amount of demos. You'll find all kinds of demos: Normal single player demos, Normal coop demos, Marathons, and even Coop marathons. Enjoy the demos :)

'Normal' demos

Markus Taipale:

• E4M5 in 0:10 - Nightmare run, two seconds faster than my previous demo. This demo is one of the coolest I've seen for a while... An amazing trick!
  

Optic:

• E4M5 in 1:45 - Easy 100%, three seconds faster than Tommi.
  

Alexander Osipov:

• E3M5 in 1:00 - Easy run, two seconds faster than Evan.
  
• E3M5 in 1:02 - Nightmare run, three seconds faster than the Doom specialist, Thomas 'Panter' Pilger.
  

Thomas Stubgaard:

• E2M5 in 2:41 - Nightmare 100%, yet another improvement over his record. Two seconds better this time.
  

Marlo Galinski:

• PSE4 in 0:47 - Easy run, five seconds faster than his previous record with lots of cool tricks and a new route.
  
• Mexx6 in 2:29 - Easy 100%, four seconds faster than Alexander, claiming his record back.
  

Tim Doherty:

• R2M4 in 7:54 - Easy 100%, filling up the tables.
  

Ilkka Kurkela:

• IKSPQ1 in 1:20 - Easy 100%, two seconds faster than my old demo. Mmm, it's been a while since I did a speedrun...
  

'Normal' Coop demos

Three coop demos for today. The first one is by Filip Söderholm & Martin Thorning:

• E4M6 in 0:20 - Easy run, one second faster me & Juho. Impressive.
  

The second one is by Tommi Kyntola & Kari Valtiala:

• E3M4 in 0:58 - Easy 100%, six seconds faster Marlo & Fab. A nice demo...
  

The third one is a 3-player MadCoop(TM) by Ravage, Shine & Mari Loli:

• E2M2 in 0:28 - Easy run, new. Nice trick and a fine route in this one.
  

Marathons

Marlo has done something really impressive:

• Easy 100% of All Quake in 54:06 - Over seven minutes faster than Optic's newish marathon. Incredible stuff... :)
  
• Easy 100% of Episode 4 in 17:03 - This is a part from his Easy all Quake. He managed to beat his previous Episode 4 record while recording it.
  

Kåre Slettnes:

• Easy 100% of Episode 3 in 9:24 - This marathon was sent a long time ago but it got lost somehow. Sorry for the delay.
  

Optic:

• Nightmare 100% of Episode 2 in 23:50 - New to the tables.
  

Tim Doherty:

• Easy 100% of Roque Episode 1 in 34:35 - New. The first keyboarder I've seen since Nolan bought a decent computer :)
  

Ilkka Kurkela:

• Nightmare run of Hipnotic Episode 1 in 3:12 - New to the tables. Eight seconds faster than SdS! :)
  

Coop Marathons

Robert Axelsson & Alexander Lindgren:

• Easy run of Episode 1 in 2:42 - New to the tables.
  

Last but definitely not least, a 4-player MadCoop(TM) by Mattias Berggren, Magnus Persson, Gunnar Rydberg, and Fredrik Egerstad:

• Easy 100% of Episode 2 in 8:35 - New to the tables.
  

That's all for now. Incase you didn't know yet, I'm having a speedrun contest at Mineral's for my new map. The deadline for the contest is 19th November, there's still enough time for you to record your demos :)

Hi there. I've lost all the demos people have sent me. If you've sent a Quake2 demo that hasn't been updated, please send it to me.

Some time ago (sorry for the delay!) Brenda EP of Brenda's Game Page pointed me towards the "Iron Maze" on her page. It's basically a huge (huge huge) maze for Quake2. Take a look at it if you like, but you'll have trouble finishing it even with the solution =)

Now, if you haven't done so already, go and check out Mineral's cool Quake map.

After quite a lot of work I've finally managed to finish my new SP level, The Mining Complex. The level is available at Mineral's and you should head on over there to check it out at once. In addition to a new SP experience, you'll have lots of fun trying to win the speedrunning contest, which I've set up for the map. So, get speedy! :)

Here goes a lot of marathons that have been laying around, apologies for the delay on these demos. From now on, send your marathons to Stefan, his E-mail address is schwoon@in.tum.de. If you want to take a look at the marathon table, click here. Anyway, check out these crazy singleplayer marathons and enjoy the first coop (and even madcoop!) marathons. Here they go...

Optic:

• Easy 100% of All Quake in 61:11 - Woah, this is the first speedrun that lasts over one hour! Definetily worth downloading. Can anyone manage the same thing on Nightmare skill? :)
  

Marlo Galinski:

• Easy 100% of Episode 3 in 9:29 - Eight seconds faster than Kåre's marathon. Only 42 seconds slower than Qd100Ql.
  
• Easy 100% of Episode 4 in 17:29 - Slightly faster than his previous time.
  

In addition to those ID marathons, he did _all_ easy 100% marathons for Hipnotic:

• Easy 100% of Hipnotic Episode 1 in 11:09 - Cool demos. New to the tables.
  
• Easy 100% of Hipnotic Episode 2 in 16:19 - New to the tables.
  
• Easy 100% of Hipnotic Episode 3 in 10:07 - New to the tables.
  
• Easy 100% of All Hipnotic(!) in 40:28 - Really impressive... New to the tables.
  

Will Marsh:

• Easy 100% of Episode 2 in 13:44 - New to the tables.
  

Kimmo Polvivaara:

• Easy run of Episode 2 in 4:29 - Three seconds faster than Optic.
  

Coop Marathons

Robert Axelsson and Alexander Lindgren:

• 2-player Easy run of Episode 2 in 3:58 - Impressive tricks... New to the tables.
  

Marlo, Fab and Stefan did two Madcoops(TM):

• 3-player Easy 100% of Episode 1 in 4:40 - New to the tables, the first Madcoop marathon ever.
  
• 3-player Easy 100% of Episode 3 in 5:47 - New to the tables.
  

That's all for now. The new single-level demos will be updated later.

Here goes lots of nice demos; many of them are ID improvements. In addition to singleplayer demos, you'll find some excellent Madcoops(TM)... :)

Singleplayer demos

Attila:

• IKSPQ3 in 0:16 - Easy run, one second faster than Peter's old demo.
  
• D208 in 0:24 - Easy run, one second faster than his previous record.
  
• D208 in 0:25 - Nightmare run, one second faster than his previous record.
  

Markus:

• E1M4 in 0:24 - Easy run, one second faster than Attila, 24.99! This is a crazy demo...
  

Thomas Stubgaard:

• E2M5 in 0:53 - Nightmare run, seven seconds faster than Nolan's ancient demo.
  

Tommi Kyntölä:

• E4M5 in 1:48 - Easy 100%, three seconds faster than Optic.
  

Marlo:

• Edom in 2:30 - Easy 100%, 15 seconds faster than Optic.
  
• Gordian's Brick in 2:16 - Easy 100%, five seconds faster than Optic.
  

Alexander:

• Mexx6 in 1:26 - Easy run, 31(!) seconds faster than Mr-J, with a cool new Enforcer-boost to get the gold key.
  
• Mexx6 in 1:41 - Nightmare run, 26 seconds faster than Mr-J.
  
• Mexx6 in 2:33 - Easy 100%, 10 seconds faster than Marlo.
  

Multiplayer demos

Stefan visited Marlo & Fabian in real life and the trio made some really cool Madcoops, enjoy:

• E1M1 in 0:28 - Easy 100%, one second faster than the previous record by me, Juho and J-J. Nice job!
  
• E1M2 in 0:34 - Easy 100%, six seconds faster than Max Rebo, Will & Optic.
  
• E1M3 in 0:47 - Easy 100%, new.
  
• E1M7 in 0:23 - Nightmare run & 100%, new.
  
• E3M1 in 0:35 - Easy 100%, even 18 seconds faster than the 5 player record!
  
• E3M2 in 0:31 - Easy 100%, 15 seconds faster than Mattias Berggren's, Gunnar's and Magnus Persson's previous record.
  

Fabian and Stefan:

• D207 in 0:22 - Nightmare 100%, new.
  

Sorry for the lack of Q2 updates recently. I have demos to post but I've just moved flats and am busy with university so it will be a couple of days until I manage an update. But at least you know a) I'm alive and b) I will do an update =)

The winner of my Simpson's compy was Phil Hall. Congratulations to him! He will receive his prize shortly....because I haven't yet decided what it is. Watch out for more in the future!

Just a quick lil' update.

With his latest demos, Markus Taipale continues to dominate the Quake tables.

• E3M6 Easy run in 0:26 improving his old time by a second.
  
• E4M6 Nightmare run in 0:48 improving Optic's time by 3 seconds.
  
• E4M7 Easy run in 0:45 improving his old time by 2 seconds.

Tommi Kyntola and Kari Valtiala did a great 100% coop of E4M5 in 1:07, keep em' coming guys!

Apologies, there has not been too many updates lately. The reason for this is the usual, being busy all the time. However, I found time to update today and I'll try to update again as soon as possible.

The demos

You should check out some of these new demos, as they are pretty cool. Here goes the normal demos (not going to update marathons) from the last two weeks or so. Starting with...

...Optic. He has produced 12 demos:

• Church in 1:30 - Nightmare 100%, 11 seconds faster than Marlo.
  
• Earthworld in 2:10 - Nightmare 100%, new.
  
• Edom in 2:45 - Easy 100%, new.
  
• Gatordiv in 4:01 - Easy 100%, new.
  
• Gordian in 2:21 - Easy 100%, new.
  
• Gordian in 3:25 - Nightmare 100%, new.
  
• GRC4Beta in 0:59 - Easy run, 22 seconds faster than his previous record, using a new route idea by Mr.Shambler.
  
• GRC4Beta in 1:02 - Nightmare run, 39(!) seconds faster than Evan's previous record.
  
• GRC4Beta in 3:01 - Nightmare 100%, new. Uhmm, lots of fishes at the buttons.
  
• Scoop in 2:34 - Nightmare 100%, new.
  
• Underworld in 1:16 - Easy run, three seconds faster than his previous record. Nice level, nice tricks.
  
• Underworld in 2:14 - Nightmare 100%, 17 seconds faster than Marlo.
  

Alexander has done some impressive demos, including a massive ID improvement:

• E2M3 in 0:48 - Nightmare run, 26(!) seconds faster than Optic.
  
• Compugib in 0:31 - Easy run, one second faster than Optic.
  
• Mexx1 in 0:13 - Easy run, three seconds faster than Matthias. A new ogre GJ route, cool stuff!
  
• Mexx1 in 0:15 - Nightmare run, one second faster than Matthias. Normal GJ route.
  
• Mexx1 in 0:58 - Easy 100%, seven seconds faster than Matthias.
  

Fabian has been active as well:

• Elden in 0:14 - Easy run, one second faster than his previous record. No 2xGJ anymore, but a high slope-GJ anyway :)
  
• Elden in 0:14 - Nightmare run, also one second faster than his previous record.
  
• Elden in 0:58 - Easy 100%, eight seconds faster than Optic.
  
• Elden in 0:59 - Nightmare 100%, two seconds faster than Optic. All new records for this level, nice job!
  
• Mexx1 in 1:22 - Nightmare 100%, five seconds faster than Matthias.
  

Stefan did three important demos. The Black tables and IKSPQ tables are finally filled up completely:

• Black1 in 1:33 - Nightmare run, new.
  
• Black2 in 1:24 - Nightmare run, new.
  
• IKSPQ5 in 2:06 - Nightmare run, new.
  

Marlo Galinski has not been idle either:

• Mexx6 in 2:43 - Easy 100%, 32(!) seconds faster than Matthias.
  
• Underworld in 2:02 - Easy 100%, 12 seconds faster than his previous record. (also received 2:03 from Optic)
  

In addition to Alex, Markus Taipale has been able to improve an ID record as well:

• E4M6 in 0:44 - Easy run, three seconds faster than my old record. A really fast demo...
  

Johan Nilsson sent his first Speedrun to SDA:

• Colony in 0:34 - Easy run.
  

Carl Tholin is back after a long break:

• Mexx3 in 1:12 - Easy run, two seconds faster than Optic.
  

The new Mexx demo from Mr-J[!!] for this update:

• Mexx6 in 1:47 - Easy run, five seconds faster than his previous record.
  

Warren Hammond sent his first single player record to SDA:

• Zerstörer 6 in 2:15 - Easy run, 11 seconds faster than Mattias Berggren. Nice new GJs included.
  

Last but not least, Tim Doherty managed to improve his long Dissolution record:

• R2M4 in 10:56 - Nightmare 100%, 101(!) seconds faster than his previous record. Can anyone push under 10 minutes? :)
  

Phew, that's quite a few demos for one update. We're still having problems with changing the records on the tables, so the old records are still on them.

Don't you wish people would stop saying 'goodness'? It kinda gets on my nerves. And by the way, I am aware of the irony of using the word in order to decry it, so don't bother pointing that out. Instead, email me if you know the 'Simpsons' episode I took that from and win a mystery prize! =)

On the subject of email, could any mail be sent to my new address please. Thanks.

Now, onto the demos!

Newcomer Alexander Moller sends in his first (duh) demo:

• Jail4 easy run in 0:54 - 16 seconds quicker than Bong's time.

Igor Rebolj complements his hard waste3 run with an easy one of the same time:

• Waste3 easy run in 0:26 - 1 second quicker than Bong.

I managed two demos as well:

• Jail5 hard run in 0:59 - 1 second quicker than Aivars.
  
• Fact1a easy run in 0:08 - new to the tables.

That's all for now. Catch ya on the flipside dudemeisters!

I recorded two demos:

• E4M8 in 0:46 - Easy run, one second faster than my previous record. Two Ogre-Grenadejumps in the demo :)
  
• BBelief3 in 0:49 - Easy run, one second faster than my previous record. Beats the SBBlite time by six seconds.

Markus improved one of his records:

• E4M7 in 0:57 - Nightmare run, one second faster.

Thomas Stubgaard improves his record even more:

• E2M5 in 2:42 - Nightmare 100%.

Marlo improved Matthias' recent Mexx8b runs:

• Easy run in 0:22 - Four seconds faster.
  
• Nightmare run in 0:22 - Five seconds faster. We also received Mexx8b runs from Asmodeus, but they were slightly slower.

Tim Doherty did his first demo, improving the longest record ever:

• R2M4 in 12:37 - Nightmare 100%, 210(!) seconds faster than Will.

Last but not least. A new trio, Josh Zayas, Warren Hammond and Bruce Wayne did two mad coops:

• BBelief3 in 0:11 - Easy run, with a nice idea.
  
• Cdespair in 0:24 - Easy run, with a double SSG boost. Must be the first one ever :)

I had some trouble when changing the tables. Hence, the old records are still on them.

Slide MOD -demo collection

You may want to check out a new collection of demos that some people have done for the Slide levels. Head on over to this page to grab the demos. Incase you didn't know yet, Slide is a Quake MOD in which you can ride a hoverboard; really fun. The mod can be downloaded here. Interesting stuff :)

Hello again. It seems I only missed one demo out of yesterday's update, and it's a great one from Filip:

• Ware1 easy run in 1:28 - 2 seconds quicker than Jesper.

Actually I have another to post, but I don't know who it's by. So, if you sent in an easy city1 run, write and tell me what time you got.

You may have noticed that the Q2 database is pretty messed up. Apparently it's been moved onto a different server or something, so I can't get at it right now. /me goes off to pester Chris some more...:)

As you may have noticed, things haven't been too busy on the Q2 front at SDA. Gerald no longer has the time to update the demos, so I agreed to fill in for him. For those of you who don't know me (for shame!) I've been speedrunning for quite some time, and helped contribute to Q2dQ2. We have 17 demos to bring you, and I apologise as best I can to those who sent in demos around half a year ago (certainly seems like it).

Mr-J[!!] kicks us off with two boss1 demos:

• Boss1 easy run in 0:35 - a 1 second improvement to his old run.
  
• Boss1 hard run in 0:35 - likewise 1 second faster than his old run.

Newcomer Bong gives us these demos:

• Jail2b hard run in 0:34 - 8 seconds quicker than Optic.
  
• Jail4 easy run in 1:10 - new to the tables.
  
• Lab easy run in 1:59 - new to the tables.
  
• Power2a easy run in 0:39 - again, a new entry.
  
• Power2a hard run in 0:40 - new to the tables.
  
• Power2b easy run in 0:21 - 1 second improvement over Sean's demo.
  
• Power2b hard run in 0:22 - 1 second faster than Sean again.
  
• Power2c easy run in 0:19 - new demo.
  
• Power2c hard run in 0:19 - new demo.
  
• Waste3 easy run in 0:27 - a new entry.

Another new runner, Igor Rebolj sends in this demo:

• Waste3 hard run in 0:26 - new to the tables, and a second faster than Bong's easy run.

Filip Söderholm and Jesper Lund sent in demos for the same map:

• Waste1a easy run by Filip in 0:25 - 1 second quicker than Optic.
  
• Waste1a hard run by Jesper in 0:27 - 1 second quicker than Joakim.

Finally, I contribute 2 demos on my favourite map :)

• Hangar2 easy run in 0:54 - new to the tables.
  
• Hangar2 hard run in 0:58 - 19 seconds faster than Aivars.

This being my first update, I've probably made loads of mistakes and forgotten demos etc; if you find a broken link or missing demo, or even want to congratulate me (a drink'll do nicely thanks), mail me.

Matthias Belz has done a huge amount of work filling up the tables lately. For this update he did _all_ the remaining demos for the Mexx tables, and improved two old records. These demos include some really hard tasks such as Mexx8b nightmare 100% and Mexx9d nightmare run, the longest nightmare run ever. Anyway, if you don't have the Mexx levels yet, it's time to download them now. Here are the links to CDROM or Sunet m-o level directories.

Then to the tablefillers:

• Mexx1 nightmare 100% in 1:27.
  
• Mexx3 easy 100% in 3:00.
  
• Mexx3 nightmare 100% in 4:42.
  
• Mexx6 easy 100% in 3:15.
  
• Mexx6 nightmare 100% in 3:44.
  
• Mexx7 nightmare 100% in 6:47.
  
• Mexx8b nightmare 100% in 12:24.
  
• Mexx9b easy 100% in 5:50.
  
• Mexx9b nightmare run in 4:20.
  
• Mexx9b nightmare 100% in 10:40.
  
• Mexx9c nightmare run in 3:46.
  
• Mexx9c nightmare 100% in 9:30.
  
• Mexx9d nightmare run in 10:18.
  
• Mexx9d nightmare 100% in 14:34.
  
• Mexx10 easy 100% in 4:29.
  
• Mexx10 nightmare run in 6:14.
  
• Mexx10 nightmare 100% in 7:43.
  
• Mexx10b easy 100% in 4:10.
  
• Mexx10b nightmare run in 4:12.
  
• Mexx10b nightmare 100% in 7:22.

Matthias also found a weird trick in Mexx8b:

• Easy run in 0:26 - 23 seconds faster than Optic. Weird trick!
  
• Nightmare run in 0:27 - 33 seconds faster than MR-J. The same trick here...

That's all for now. There are some really cool demos by others still to be posted. I'll update them as soon as I have time.

Watch out, there are some great new demos in this update!

Original Quake

First off is Markus Taipale, going to try RDE Markus?

• E2M4 Easy run in 0:41 improving Kimmo's time by 4 seconds.
  
• E2M5 Easy run in 0:31 improving Steinar's time by 3 seconds.

Atilla improved one of his older records by a second.

• E3M2 Nightmare run in 0:25.

New player, Nagasaki, improved an ancient demo.

• E1M5 Nightmare run in 0:20 improving Yonatan's time by 1 second.

Custom Demos

Fabian did a a good number of demos.

• Catacombs Easy 100% in 1:00 improving Matthias's time by 11 seconds.
  
• Catacombs Nightmare 100% in 1:01 improving Matthias's time by 12 seconds.
  
• The Forsaken Citadel Easy 100% in 1:36 improving Matthias's time by 16 seconds.
  
• The Forsaken Citadel Nightmare 100% in 1:36 improving Matthias's time by 16 seconds.

Marathon Runs

Marlo doesn't give up on the marathon runs.

• All of Quake on Easy in 18:15 improving his previous marathon by 18 seconds.
  

Marathon runs are found here, I wasn't able to upload the other marathon run of his but when my internet stabilizes I will.

Hi, sorry for no updates from me. I still haven't received all my mail because I have 135+ mails and most with attachments. Cameron and I have gotten back into coop and made a few demos.

• Easy run of RD1M3 in 0:35.
  
• Easy run of E4M7 in 0:45.
  
• Easy 100% of BBelief4 in 1:23.

All of which are new to the tables. When I finish with my heavy mail download I will update some more demos.

Sorry for the lack of updates, but I have been really busy lately. Anyway, people have recorded quite a lot demos for ID & custom levels during the last couple of weeks; total 18 new demos.

Thomas Stubgaard did his first SDA demo, an ID -record:

• E2M5 in 2:55 - Nightmare run, 18 seconds faster than Nolan's previous record. Way to go :)

Optic produced six demos:

• Arcane in 2:07 - Easy 100%, eight seconds faster than Marlo.
  
• Arcane in 1:49 - Nightmare run, ten seconds faster than Thomas.
  
• Arcane in 2:35 - Nightmare 100%, 21 seconds faster than Thomas.
  
• BNT2 in 3:19 - Nightmare 100%, 32(!) seconds faster than Marlo.
  
• Elden in 1:01 - Nightmare 100%, 19 seconds faster than Matthias. Even five seconds faster than his easy 100%. *hint*
  
• RWA in 1:21 - Nightmare 100%, 33(!) seconds faster than Matthias.

Marlo has done some nice custom level demos:

• Dungeon in 0:32 - Easy run, two seconds faster than Optic.
  
• Dungeon in 0:56 - Easy 100%, 12 seconds faster than Matthias.
  
• Well in 4:19 - Easy 100%, 34 seconds faster than his previous demo. Finally faster than my nightmare 100% ;)
  
• Village in 3:01 - Easy 100%, 24 seconds faster than Matthias.

Fabian spent some time on The Forsaken Citadel:

• Easy 100% in 1:36 - 16 seconds faster than Matthias.
  
• Nightmare 100% in 1:36 - 16 seconds faster than Matthias. FAB has all the records for this level now.

Mr-J keeps up the Mexx madness:

• Mexx5 in 3:15 - Easy 100%, 14 seconds faster than Optic.

Then we have some new co-op demos,

Josh Zayas & Warren Hammond did three records:

• E2M2 in 0:37 - Easy run, new.
  
• E2M6 in 1:20 - Easy run, new.
  
• Cdespair in 0:33 - Easy run, new. Cool GJ+SSG trick in this one...

Me and Juho improved the BBelief5 record:

• Easy run in 0:17 - Found a new boost over a trigger :)

That's all for now. Incase I forgot any (not marathon/RDE) demos, send mail. Please remember, when you do the .txt for your demos, don't forget to mention how much you improved the previous record, and who had the previous record. That helps a lot on updating, thanks.

Over at the Runner's Delight page new demos have been posted, go check 'em out.

Some more demos for the 'non-RDE' maps, starting with an ID record...

... by Alexander Osipov:

• E4M7 in 2:13 - Easy 100%, eight seconds faster than his previous demo.

Marlo Galinski improved two easy 100%s:

• Hotel in 0:40 - Three seconds faster than Optic.
  
• Flo in 1:27 - 11 seconds faster than Matthias.

The fastest demos ever

Yes, you read correctly. The fastest demos ever, coop runs on Well of the Lost Souls by me & J-J:

• Well in 0:02 - Easy run, new.
  
• Well in 0:02 - Nightmare run, new.

Can anyone do this on single player? :)

Beyond Belief demos

Although the Beyond Belief tables have been on a 'break' for some time, there are still some demos to be posted. First of all, I recorded a demo for BBelief3:

• Bbelief3 in 0:50 - Two seconds faster than my previous record.

A couple of weeks ago we did a coop with J-J on BBelief5, but I forgot to post it. Today, Warren Hammond & John Zayas sent a coop for the same level, but their time was one second slower. I'll post both of the demos here, as 1) the routes are different 2) they didn't know about the 'old' record.

• The demo by Ilkka & J-J, 0:21, using the secret exit route.
  
• The demo by Warren & John, 0:22, using the normal exit route.

Finally, when the SCBB -project was released a couple of months ago at QdQ, the both 100% demos for BBelief1 were improved. About the time to get these demos posted :)

• BBelief1 in 1:42 - demo by Ilkka, 10 seconds faster than Optic.
  
• BBelief1 in 2:02 - demo by Marlo, nine seconds faster than his old record.

Ages ago Mattias and Fredrik Egerstad submitted a coop easy 100% marathon run of episode 1 in 6:41. It was a nice set of demos, however, the two forgot to do e1m8, so it was not a valid submission. We've known about this for very long now, but I guess we never got round to fixing it; better late than never. Check out the Marathon page for the current marathon-records.

I've also just received an amazing demo from Ilkka which I posted at the RDE page, where I will be doing a full update soon.

Co-op in QuakeWorld?

I'm not sure exactly how much, but I do know I heard "Oh god this lag sucks, I wish coop was possible in QW" a LOT of times during madcoop. You can imagine my excitement when I got a mail from MoG mentioning a CoopWorld mod! Well, I downloaded the thing, and tested it with the Madcoop team on saturday, but it wasn't far as cool as I had hoped. Okay, it HAD monsters in QuakeWorld, but that was basically where the good stuff ended. Monsters kept respawning 3 or 4 times (probably the author's idea of creating more of a challenge), and all the DM weapons were still in the levels (yes the RL in e1m1 too). Speedrunning would be completily impossible as the mod uses the DM starts as spawnspots, and not the coop starts. These problems didn't seem fixable, however I didn't spend too much time trying to work it out. If it has your interest, check out the CoopWorld site.

Episode 1 done Quick with FOV 250!

While cleaning out my bookmarks I stumbled on the Fisheye Quake page again, which is maintained by PQ's Aardappel. Fisheye Quake is basically a modified version of the executable, based on the (unreleased) source code that lets you use FOV's higher than 180, any FOV you want to be precise. It's very useful for DM I suppose, but that's not what this is on SDA for. The cool thing about this is that the page has a movie available of the easy SDA runs of episode 1, played back in FisheyeQuake with FOV 250! It's for you high-bandwidth types only (unless you're a real fanatic), as the file is a big fat 34 meg AVI. Anyway, still very entertaining and highly recommended, get it here (34M).

While most of the people have been busy recording demos for RDE, some people have done demos for the 'usual' custom maps. Also, Attila and Max Rebo have managed to beat one ID map record each. Here goes total 36 demos, enjoy!

Matthias Belz fills up the tables with 23(!) demos...

• Bastardry in 1:41 - Nightmare 100%.
  
• Catacombs in 1:11 - Easy 100%.
  
• Catacombs in 1:13 - Nightmare 100%.
  
• Dungeon in 1:08 - Easy 100%.
  
• Dungeon in 1:08 - Nightmare 100%.
  
• Elden in 1:20 - Nightmare 100%.
  
• Empire in 3:10 - Easy 100%.
  
• Empire in 4:13 - Nightmare 100%.
  
• Escape in 1:54 - Nightmare 100%.
  
• Evilpool in 2:06 - Nightmare 100%.
  
• The Forsaken Citadel in 1:52 - Easy 100%.
  
• The Forsaken Citadel in 1:52 - Nightmare 100%.
  
• Fireworld in 1:27 - Easy 100%.
  
• Fireworld in 2:33 - Nightmare 100%.
  
• The Map of Flo in 1:38 - Easy 100%.
  
• The Map of Flo in 1:37 - Nightmare 100%.
  
• Foon in 1:45 - Nightmare run.
  
• Foon in 2:55 - Nightmare 100%.
  
• FunRun in 2:18 - Easy 100%.
  
• FunRun in 2:18 - Nightmare 100%.
  
• Hayduke in 2:53 - Nightmare 100%.
  
• Mountain base in 1:51 - Nightmare 100%.
  
• Village in 3:25 - Easy 100%.

...and improves my Mexx1 runs with a new route:

• Easy run in 0:16 - 18(!) seconds faster.
  
• Nightmare run in 0:16 - 19(!) seconds faster.

Daniel Lindberg recorded four demos:

• Bridge to Fire in 0:59 - Easy 100%, 11 seconds faster than Marlo.
  
• Coopmine in 1:31 - Easy run, six seconds faster than Optic.
  
• Hellbase in 0:52 - Easy run, five seconds faster than Optic.
  
• Hellbase in 0:54 - Nightmare run, three seconds faster than Optic.

Fabian Kollakowski did two demos:

• Hotel in 0:59 - Nightmare 100%, eight seconds faster than Matthias.
  
• Mexx4 in 2:46 - Easy 100%, 11 seconds faster than his previous record.

People who have recorded one demo:

• Max Rebo: E3M6 in 6:26 - Nightmare 100%, improving one of Nolan's ancient demos by 12 seconds.
  
• Attila Csernyik: E3M7 in 0:48 - Easy run, optimizing his previous record by two seconds!
  
• Alexander Osipov: Compugib in 1:09 - Nightmare 100%, eight seconds faster than Matthias.
  
• Optic: Mexx5 in 3:29 - Easy 100%, 35 seconds faster than Mattias.
  
• Janne Kalliomäki: IKSPQ2 in 2:06 - Easy 100%, yet two seconds faster than his previous record. Closer and closer to 2-minute mark :)

Ilkka has run all of SoA in 11:28 - Definitely worth watching and sorry for the delay on this Ilkka :-)

As ever Marathon runs can be found here.

More Runner's Delight demos for you, and pretty ones, too! I just updated them to the RDE page; don't forget to check out the table over there.

Here's the update:

Ilkka and Juho did two amazing new coops.

• Easy run of RD1M1 in 0:24, four seconds faster than their previous record. I guess you could say they use a somewhat more efficient trick...
• Easy 100% run of RD1M1 in 0:49, no less than 21 seconds faster than the already quite fast demo from FAB & Marlo! A must see, and watch the gibs fly in the intermission =)

Fab & Marlo did a cool demo too:

• Easy 100% of RD1M2 in 0:55, cool trick in the end where they both jump off one grenade. 13 seconds faster than Arno and Ralf.

Daniel Lindberg improves his 'old' RD1M2 record:

• Easy run of RD1M2 in 0:27, two seconds faster. Nice!

Josh Zayas gets this demo into the tables:

• Easy 100% of RD1M2 in 1:40, not bad at all.

Kimmo Polvivaara is still doing very well one the end map. Here's two new demos from him:

• Easy run of RDend in 1:27, 5 seconds faster than his previous record.
• Nightmare run of RDend, 2:05, featuring five successful grenade+rocketjumps, as well as plenty of normal rocketjumps, quadded ones that is :) I like the one around the curve especially...

Arno Slagboom adds a new 100% on RD1M4 to the tables:

• Easy 100% of RD1M4 in 2:09, new.

First nightmare 100%
Nolan Pflug returns to speedrunning doing what he does best: Nightmare 100% running.

• Nightmare 100% of RD1M3 in 2:55, great stuff. Heads flying through the intermission, again! :)

Anyone with aspirations to enter the Easy 100% contest of RD1M3 will definitly want to check this demo out.

Two very impressive demos
Attila found the bar-trick in RD1M3! Woohoo! I received a lot of easy runs on RD1M3, but he seemed the only one to have discovered it. It's the only trick I'd never seen done in a speedrun before, so I just had to built in into RDE. Great job Attila!

• Easy run of RD1M3 in 0:45, new. (Oh and in case anyone is wondering what 'Summa Celeritate Currere Difficilis Ars Est' means: 'Speedrunning is a difficult art' :)

And finally, be warned, Ilkka has entered the Single Player-fray too...

• Easy run of RD1M1 in 0:48, 3 seconds faster than Attila. What can I say? Is the first level optimized, already?

Over at the new Runner's Delight page you can find the first load of RDE-demos. Since this is the first time RDE demos are updated, I wanted to list all demos I received, so that's why they are at the RDE page (I didn't want to spam SDA with lots of demos that are not going to be added to the SDA-system). However, next time, you'll find all RDE demos up here, so you don't have to worry about having to visit two sites for demos :)

It's been a while since I've posted a demo of my own here (or any demos for that matter ;) but due to a relocation to California, being on a LAN all day, and finding a coop partner to play with, I finally have something worth posting:

• e1m3 2 player coop in 0:27, beating Ilkka and Juho by one second!

Thanks to fellow GameSpy employee and speed-running partner, Patrick 'Void' Cupka, for his assistance with this one.

RDE is out!! After ages of hard work, the thing is finally done. In case you didn't know, here's the update straight from the new RDE page:

The Runner's Delight Episode is a new 6-level Quake 1 episode, designed specifically for speedrunning, (but also suitable for single play and DM). This means that all levels offer lots of quadded-rocketjumps, doublegrenadejumps, barreljumps etc. etc. But, shortcuts are not required to finish the levels - they just provide you with a quicker route.

Stop wasting you time reading this, grab it NOW and get running!!

Ofcourse, RDE demos will be accepted here on SDA. We will add the levels to the database very soon, so you can send your demos in to sda just like you're used to. There are three exceptions: those are the runs that are used for the contest on the new RDE page. These runs are:

• Easy 100% of RD1M3
• Easy run of RD1M4
• Nightmare 100% of RDend

All other spaces in the tables should be filled quickly, good luck :)

Matthias Belz fills up the tables with seven new demos:

• Rwa1 in 1:54 - Nightmare 100%.
  
• Giblex in 1:06 - Nightmare 100%.
  
• Hotel in 1:07 - Nightmare 100%.
  
• Mexx8 in 4:58 - Easy run.
  
• Mexx8 in 5:19 - Nightmare run.
  
• Mexx8 in 7:37 - Easy 100%.
  
• Mexx8 in 8:53 - Nightmare 100%. Wow, all the records for this long level :)

Fabian has produced four demos:

• BC in 0:35 - Easy run, one second faster than Optic.
  
• Deso in 0:46 - Easy run, one second faster than Optic.
  
• Deso in 0:46 - Nightmare run, two seconds faster than his previous record.
  
• Mexx4 in 2:57 - Easy 100%, 18 seconds faster than Matthias' newish tablefiller.

Mr-J[!!] sends more demos for Mexx levels:

• Mexx7 in 1:51 - Easy run, two seconds faster than Matthias.
  
• Mexx7 in 5:10 - Easy 100%, paying back to the fiends :) New.
  
• Mexx9b in 2:47 - Easy run, five seconds faster than Nolan.

Qurre improved both Flyer 100%s:

• Easy 100% in 0:27 - Six seconds faster than Fabian's record.
  
• Nightmare 100% in 0:27 - Also six seconds faster than Fabian's record. Qurre has now all the records for this level.

Finally, I have improved one SoA demo:

• Hip1m1 in 1:20 - One second faster than Optic.

That's all the demos for this update, enjoy them, and make sure that you don't miss the RDE release party tomorrow! :)

As was announced on the Runner's Delight progress page today, the episode is finished, and will be released on friday! Finally!

Here's the details:

The release will be on Friday the 13th of August.To celebrate this happy event, I'd like to invite all of you to an IRC party on Friday evening, 21:00 GMT. The server is PlanetQuake.3dnet.net, #rde. (just use the settings you used for the Q2dQ2 party, but change the channel to #rde). The time 21:00 GMT is 17:00h in New York, 22:00h UK time, 23:00h Dutch, German, and Swedish time, and 00:00h Finnish time.

For more info head over to the RDE page.

Kimmo Polvivaara found a slightly new route to e3m4:

• Easy run in 0:38 - One second faster than Markus. Down to one health :)

Markus Taipale did two nightmare runs for ID levels:

• e3m6 in 0:30 - One second faster than my previous demo, looks like optimized.
  
• e4m7 in 0:58 - Four second faster than Alexander.

Custom level demos

Mr-J[!!] keeps up the good work. This time he recorded runs for mexx4:

• Easy run in 1:26 - Four seconds faster than Optic.
  
• Nightmare run in 1:47 - 11 seconds faster than Matthias Belz.

Matthias Belz decided to record some demos for mexx4 as well:

• Easy 100% in 3:15 - New.
  
• Nightmare 100% in 5:12 - New, 142 monsters gibbed :)

Then we have three new demos by Fabian:

• The Fatal Place in 0:48 - Easy run, three seconds faster than Thomas.
  
• The Flyer in 0:33 - Easy 100%, new.
  
• The Flyer in 0:33 - The same time on nightmare skill. New to the tables.

More demos coming soon...

The Runner's Delight Episode, the missionpack for speedrunning, is nearing completion, finally. Still some stuff needs to be done, but the end is definitely close (and it ought to be, it's already later than the promised deadline). There's some further info and a cool new screenshot up at the Runner's Delight progress page, check it out.

For today we have nine speedruns played on ID, Hipnotic and Custom maps. Starting with the singleplayer demos,

Mr-J[!!] is back to Quake running with fast demos for Mexx5:

• Easy run in 1:21 - One second faster than Optic.
  
• Nightmare run in 1:22 - Five seconds faster than Optic.

I recorded easy run for hip1m2 in 0:12, improving my previous record yet by one second. This must be optimized now...

Coop demos

Me and Juho recorded four coops for Hipnotic levels some weeks ago. Here they go:

• hip1m1 in 0:17 - Easy run, new.
  
• hip1m4 in 0:54 - Easy run, new.
  
• hip1m5 in 0:38 - Easy run, 45(!) seconds faster than our previous demo with a new shortcut :)
  
• hip2m2 in 0:27 - Nightmare run, one second faster than the previous record by me & Matti.

Marlo and Fabian have done two impressive easy 100% demos for ID levels:

• e2m1 in 0:52 - Three seconds faster than me & J-J. The last kill is nice :)
  
• e2m4 in 1:15 - 11 seconds faster than Chris & Nolan's internet demo.

If you didn't already know, the recam of Quake2 Done Quick2 by Zarathustra Studios was released yesterday! The refilming is incredible, and sports some awesome slow motion effects so download it now!

To announce the recams for the great Q2dQ2, there is a special release party hosted by the QdQ guys. Here's the details from the QdQ site.

Time: Saturday night / Sunday morning, release at 00:00GMT (Saturday 19:00EST), come along a little earlier for a chat. Network: 3dnet (e.g. irc.3dnet.net, planetquake.3dnet.net, telefragged.3dnet.net, etc.) Channel: #qdq

While downloading some custom maps yesterday I noticed that the author of the map Colony has deleted the original off all the sites and replaced it with an upgraded Colony map. I think its only right that I clear the original colony demos and start new tables for the upgraded map, only because the original doesn't exist anymore. Sorry to all those (including myself) who have worked to optimise the Colony map but whats the point of a record if nobody can watch it. Anyways, I hope to see some good demos come in.

A broken keyboard didn't seem to slow down Thomas Bergendorff as he recorded a few nice demos.

• Despair2 Easy run in 0:46 improving Optics time by 4 seconds.
  
• Despair2 Nightmare run in 1:03, new to the tables.
  
• Despair2 Easy 100% in 2:01, also new to the tables.
  
• The Fatal Place Easy 100% in 3:09 improving Stefan's time by 10 seconds.

Markus Taipale did a perfect Nightmare run of E4M2 in 0:34 improving his previous record by 1 second.

Marlo Galinski does an Easy 100% of Disturb in 0:44 improving Thomas's time by 1 seconds.

I've also done my first run in quite some time, mainly because I have a new computer. I improved my year old Court Despair Easy run by 7 seconds coming up with a solid 0:47. BTW: This demo was recorded before I downloaded QdQStats on this computer so it might say 0:48 on intermission but it is like 47.98.

Optic seems to be the 'main man' for this update so here's his demos.

• The Cobalt Palace, Nightmare run in 1:09 improving Matthias's time by 20 seconds.
  
• The Soul Grinder, Nightmare run in 0:25 improving his old time by 49 seconds(!).
  
• The Tomb, Easy run in 1:26 improving his old time by 15 seconds.
  
• The Tomb, Nightmare run in 1:27 improving his old time by 15 seconds.
  
• The Village of Dread, Easy run in 1:14 improving his old time by 39 seconds(!).

Thomas Bergendorff does a very nice Easy run of The Fatal Place in 0:51 improving Erik's ancient time by 6 seconds.

Daniel Lindburg has done a good share of demos.

• Easy run of Area51 in 0:58 improving his time by 2 seconds.
  
• Easy 100% run of Area51 in 1:17 improving Optics time by 20 seconds(!).
  
• Easy run of Erotique in 0:22 improving my old time by 1 second.
  
• Nightmare run of of Erotique in 0:23 improving Optic's time by 1 second.
  
• Easy run of Retinal Tear in 0:54 improving Marlo's time by 2 seconds.
  
• Nightmare run of Retinal Tear in 0:56 improving Marlo's run also by 2 seconds.
  

Markus Taipale has cranked out a couple of impressive demos.

• Easy 100% of E2M2 in 1:02 improving his previous time by 3 seconds.
  
• Easy run of E4M7 bunnying to a 0:47 improving Ilkka's old time by 1 second.

Attila and Peter haven't been idle either nailing the Easy E1M1 coop time to a blistering time of 0:22 improving their old time by 1 second.

Optic improves Tom's Nightmare 100% of Networld by 27 seconds to get 2:11.

Will's back! Improving Yonatan's H3M4 Nightmare 100% by 75 seconds(!!!) to get 3:54 keep them coming Will!

Also my friend Eclipse sent me this hilarious movie, you have to see this! (Quicktime required)

Marlo Galinski:

• Carnage in 1:32 - Easy 100%, five seconds faster than Optic. Good playing!
  
• Networld in 2:22 - Nightmare 100%, 16 seconds faster than Thomas.
  
• Rwa1 in 1:10 - Easy 100%, new.

Thomas Bergendorff:

• Disturb in 0:45 - Easy run, two seconds faster than Optic with a cool double GJ!
  
• Disturb in 0:53 - Nightmare run, five seconds faster than Optic.

Optic:

• Guardhouse in 2:08 - Nightmare 100%, 97(!) seconds faster than Jesse.

Lots of demos from Daniel, one demo from Optic and two coop demos by me & Juho coming soon...

If a run you submitted does not appear in this update, you will probably want to check out the Q2 running rules on our Misc Info page.

Newcomer Jamo sends on one run:

• Easy city1 in :58, 2 seconds faster than Black Viper's previous record

Newcomer Bong sends in quite a few runs:

• Easy hangar2 in 1:06, new
• Hard hangar2 in 1:08, 9 seconds faster than Aivar's previous record
• Easy jail2b in :34, 8 seconds faster than Optic's previous record
• Easy jail4 in 1:10, new
• Easy power2a in :39, new
• Hard power2a in :40, new
• Easy power2b in :21, 1 second faster than Sean's previous record
• Hard power2b in :22, 1 second faster than Sean's previous record

Newcomer Igor Rebolj sends in couple of runs:

• Easy waste3 in :26, 5 seconds faster than Paul's previous record
• Hard waste3 in :26, new

Filip sends on one run:

• Easy waste1a in :25, 1 second faster than Optic's previous record

I forgot this demo of Sean's from the last update:

• Hard boss2 in :45

Grab this update's packs:

• Easy pack
• Hard pack

Here goes the new demos at last. Some of them have been laying around for quite a while, but better late than never. There are singleplayer demos, 2-player coops and a couple of mad coops as well.

When you send demos, add a line like this to your .txt: "improved player's previous record by ? seconds.", thanks.

Singleplayer demos

Marlo Galinski:

• Discord in 0:53 - Nightmare run.
  
• Jawbreak in 2:07 - Easy run, four seconds faster than his previous record.
  
• Jawbreak in 2:52 - Easy 100%.
  
• Jawbreak in 2:29 - Nightmare run.
  
• Jawbreak in 3:16 - Nightmare 100%.
  
• Rust in peace in 2:09 - Easy 100%, new.

Optic:

• BBelief 4 in 1:54 - Easy 100%, 23 seconds faster than Stefan.
  
• Coopmine in 1:37 - Easy 100%.
  
• Deso in 1:40 - Easy 100%.

Janne Kalliomäki:

• IKSPQ 2 in 2:08 - Easy 100%, yet two seconds faster than his previous.
  
• IKSPQ 4 in 2:36 - Easy 100%, 17 seconds faster than Nolan.

Fabian Kollakowski:

• Elden in 0:15 - Easy run, impressive.
  
• Elden in 0:15 - Nightmare run, same stuff.

Coop demos

Marlo & Fabian have done also coop demos. Worth watching:

• e1m5 in 0:33 - Easy 100%, two seconds faster than Evan & Cameron.
  
• e3m1 in 0:43 - Easy 100%, three seconds faster than Attila & Peter.
  
• Guardhouse in 0:38 - Easy 100%, four seconds faster than Jesse & me.

Mad coop (TM)

Here goes three Mad coop demos that I recorded with my friends on a LAN last week. Should be quality:

• 4p Doom2_01 in 0:12 - Easy 100%, four seconds faster than the previous (lag) demo.
  
• 4p Doom2_08 in 0:32 - Easy 100%.
  
• 4p Zerstörer 1 in 0:36 - Easy 100%. Lots of chainsaw action, an axe boost etc. :)

More non-Quake 1 speedrunning news: a few days ago, Mr. Shambler of TEAMShambler Quake Level Reviews posted some more Unreal speedruns over at his demo site Lost Spirit Custom Level Demos. But, unlike the earlier demos he did, these are *not* on custom maps but on the in-game levels, the id on...eh..Epic ones (yea, I wondered what they are doing at a custom demo site too :) Anyway, once again lots of rocketjumping action and other tricks in Unreal, so check it out.

My 'madcoop-homiez' and me did a new demo too :)

• 6-player easy 100% of The Elektra Complex in 0:42, by me, Ilkka, Will, Mattias, Kimmo and Fab. We had sweet pings for a change, almost all were under 200. Check the two quadded-ssg boosts out...

(And on my birthday too!)
The Quake done Quick team, best known for running through Quake1 at high speeds, are proud to annouce our first release for Quake2. Quake2 done Quick2 is a set of demos completing the whole of Quake2 on hard skill in a total time of 21:06. This release comprises the player-perspective demos - a recam by Zarathustra Studios is already underway.

I've been away for more than a week at an international bridge competition, just returned and still recovering from the lack of sleep. Anyway, there should be a Q2 update soon, probably the 6th... a special day for me. Also, big news: Q2dQ2 running has completed! We're now going through a series of beta testing and bug-hunting, and hopefully Q2dQ2 should be released before Friday. I've watched through the entire run and I must say.. if you were impressed with Colin's excellent 27:34 maddash through Skill 0, Q2dQ2 on Skill 2 (and in a much faster time) will totally blow you away.